Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 19 The Lively Player Forum

"Fuck your mother!"

"Compensation? Compensation my ass! I failed yesterday, and you're going to compensate me today?"

"Why are you messing with me like this?! What gives you the right?!"

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It was 5:30 p.m.

After a quick lunch of instant noodles, Lin Ke went downstairs to a small noodle shop to treat himself.

He ordered a bowl of chicken giblet noodles and started watching videos while waiting for his big bowl.

At that moment, he was watching a live stream that appeared to be from a losing player.

The streamer is a young woman who looks quite good, so she's quite popular.

Riding on the wave of popularity generated by yesterday's real-life game, her live stream is quite lively right now.

However, she was clearly also on the verge of losing her guard at this moment.

"Hahaha, she's broken down! Look, Sister Lin's broken down, haha~~~"

"That's satisfying. So what if I don't have the qualifications to play the game? Haha, here's a poor guy who had the qualifications but missed out on the 'million'."

"My condolences! My deepest sympathies to the anchor."

"Haha! My condolences +1"

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Inside the live stream, a large number of viewers seemed to enjoy the spectacle and were quite gloating.

Lin Ke felt sorry for the female anchor, but that was just how it was; after all, she wasn't the only one who had suffered misfortune.

"Handsome, your chicken giblet noodles are ready."

The noodle shop owner brought the chicken giblet noodles to Lin Ke's small table.

"Well, thank you."

Lin Ke took the noodles from the boss and continued to eat them heartily while watching the live stream.

He needed to finish his noodles quickly, as he needed to go to the pet store in Times Square, about two kilometers away, to choose his own pet later.

At this moment, Lin Ke didn't think much about it. He was just watching these videos to have some fun online and to collect some useful information about the game.

After quickly finishing his noodles, Lin Ke went to the pet store, picked out two hamsters, and hurriedly returned to his residence.

During this process, he discovered that whether it was passersby or pet shop owners, the most discussed topic now was real-life gaming.

And just now, he received a call from Aunt Wang from the neighborhood office.

It is said that tomorrow morning, the subdistrict office will conduct door-to-door population census registration for all residents of the Riverside Community.

"Population census? At this time?"

Lin Ke instinctively had some doubts.

But after thinking about it carefully, it didn't really matter.

Having been unemployed for a long time and being a 26-year-old, he was definitely one of the key groups targeted for door-to-door 'census'.

This kind of thing is unavoidable.

However, Lin Ke remained completely calm.

The reason is simple: after the game's dedicated comment section was opened, the so-called comment section, which is now the top-of-the-page notification on the forum, had already relieved all players of their burden.

Therefore, Lin Ke felt no sense of crisis at this moment.

He quickly returned home and immediately logged back into the official game forum. There, a prominent "Official Game Post" was clearly visible on the forum's homepage.

[Public Notice: Due to the impact of operational promotions, and to protect player privacy, we are now publishing the online player privacy protection measures.]

(1. The real game online does not rely on any Blue Star Internet network service. Disconnection from the Internet or power will not affect players who have installed the game. Therefore, please be aware that no method can track a player's IP address through the network, nor can power outages or Internet disconnections affect a player's normal game behavior. Please explore the specific situation on your own.)
(2. Based solely on the player's own will, the player can control the form in which their game exists on the PC through their thoughts. Except for the player themselves, no other person or thing can view or search for the icons of the games that the player has installed on their PC or even the game data against the player's will.)
(3. The online player-exclusive forum can be linked to a mobile device. Once the forum is linked to a mobile device, no one can view the forum's existence or content unless the player does so at their own discretion.)
A simple post has already solved the burden for most players who don't want to reveal their identities.

It was already 7:30 p.m.

Most players had already finished their eight hours of gameplay, so the game forum was quite lively at this point.

One of the posts that followed the pinned post became quite popular.

This post was actually a recruitment notice from the official countermeasures bureau.

[The Countermeasures Bureau has no ill intentions towards players. For the sake of Earth and the Human Alliance, we urge all players to set aside any personal prejudices against the Human Alliance and actively join the Countermeasures Bureau.]

The post details the current salary and benefits offered to players by the Countermeasures Bureau. For example, the basic monthly salary for players in the East Continent Countermeasures Bureau is 20,000 Lianbi, with a two-day weekend, an eight-hour workday, and six types of insurance and two types of funds.

Furthermore, different departments and positions have different salary increase rates.

For example, combat positions pay three times more than logistics positions, and so on.

In short, the compensation, though not high, is still quite attractive.

After all, the average basic salary in East Asia is only 3 to 5 RMB.

Based on the basic salary and various benefits currently offered by the UN Human Rights Council, the average annual salary can easily reach over 350,000 NTD per person.

Just kidding, this salary is already higher than the salary of many ordinary company executives.

Therefore, this post generated quite a bit of buzz on the forum.

“I firmly support the People’s League and I am willing to join the Countermeasures Bureau. I have already submitted my application.”

“I firmly support the People’s Confederation of Singapore (SCSG). I don’t care about salary and benefits; I simply want to give back to the SCSG and the community.”

"I firmly support the People's Federation, and I have already submitted my online application to join the Countermeasures Bureau. But by the way, since the benefits in our Countermeasures Bureau are so good, will they be responsible for providing wives for us later?"

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It must be said that there are quite a few players in this thread who choose to believe in the League of Legends or even support the official stance.

However, in contrast to the appeal from the SUPP Policy Bureau, there was another post opposing joining SUPP right under the SUPP post.

[The People's Alliance Countermeasures Bureau? Even dogs wouldn't join. Anyone who does is a fool. They expect us to risk our lives for such a paltry salary?!]

The content of the post wasn't particularly novel, and it didn't contain any particularly bitter or resentful material.

But what this player said is very thought-provoking.

For example, if a real game brings supernatural powers into reality, then there will definitely be many people in the upper echelons of the Human Alliance who will stop at nothing to achieve immortality.

Let alone the top echelons of the People's Federation, even some big businessmen would do the same.

Therefore, the player actively articulated his point of view: why don't players wait for the right opportunity and sell at a higher price?
At present, the only in-game reward players can obtain is character cards, but who can guarantee that other additional rewards won't appear later?

How would these outputs be calculated if they were included in the Human Rights Alliance?
Is it considered the player's private property or public property? Furthermore, at what price does the Human Alliance Countermeasures Bureau intend to exchange for the player's subsequent output?

Therefore, this player's advice is that players can hold off on making a decision at this stage and wait for the right opportunity to sell based on the subsequent developments in the game.

She even bluntly stated that at this stage, various channels have reported that many large conglomerates in the Human Alliance are willing to pay high prices to recruit players as their own 'retainers'.

But that's not all the post contained. The player went on to elaborate on the selfishness of human nature, even going so far as to ask, "In this great upheaval, do you know what it means to say, 'Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?'"
After reading the last part of this post, Lin Ke exclaimed, "Wow!"

This guy was practically saying he wanted to rebel!
Lin Ke declined to comment, saying he would simply be a law-abiding and exemplary citizen and not get involved in this mess.

So Lin Ke continued to read the forum chat content of other players.

(End of this chapter)